Timesonline.co.uk | Blind to the facts?

If you are a parent there can’t be too many checks in nurseries.

'[...] Moans about a “national curriculum for babies” spring from an obsession that everything would be all right in the world if we just trusted in human intuition.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the care of small children, that doesn’t hold. Guilt-ridden, working parents need reassurance that everything possible is being done to ensure that nurseries keep a proprietal eye on their charges, and if they don’t, someone is going to give their bottoms a kick.'

Timesonline article by Simon Crompton
Published 17 March 2007

Timesonline.co.uk | Universities set to coach the brightest children from the age of 4

Under the National Gifted and Talented Youth Agency, UK universities will now offer summer programmes, Saturday lessons, and online tuition to especially bright children. It will also track over 400,000 children from age 4 through to when they enter university.

Article by Alexandra Frean
published 17 March 2007